Are you using Chrome Password Manager?
If the answer is 'Yes', do you know that that anyone who has access to your machine can view the passwords you have saved in Chrome?



All you need to do is go to chrome://settings/passwords and press the "show" button next to any saved password. It will show your saved password in clear text.

now you must be wondering that it is a big time defect. No! Do you know that google says that this is an intended behavior. Per Google, it's how the password manager is supposed to work. In fact, it's the only way it can work.

Per Google Chrome password manager works by remembering the username and password and then fills that at the login screen. The password must be in clear text, otherwise browser wouldn't be able to us that with the remember me feature.

Of course, you can't read the password that's been auto-filled in the input field since characters are replaced by asterisks. But that's a very basic method of protection; the real characters are still available through a number of tricks.

Now, what do you say?
DO you think Using Chrome Password Manager is safe? or do you have any other tricks that you would like to suggest Google?

-CB